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Windows 7: AOE 3 CD Key Incompatibility on W 7

I had problems when installing AOE 3 on Vista - I had to disable my antivirus to get it to recognize the CD key. Now that I'm on 7 I'm having the same problem - it says that the CD key in my box is not valid. I've disabled firewalls, cleared out startup tasks in msconfig, disabled antivirus, updated graphic card drivers, set game execs to run winxp and as admin - nothing works.

AOE 3 CD Key Incompatibility on W 7

CD 64 bit incompatibility issue.I am running Windows 7 64 bit.
I have an old special Beatles PC playable music CD with 25 albums on it, it is a home produced CD but not made by me unfortunately
The CD will not open with the usual menu display of the list of albums and tracks because of the 64 bit incompatibility issue.
It...

Music, Pictures & Video

Photoshop CS4 incompatibilityHi-
I use Photoshop CS5.5 at work and created this 1920x1080 document with about 15 Layer-comps and ~350 layers in it.
I went home and opened the file on CS4 and the message I got was:
"could not complete your request because the resulting document would be too big"
I even ruined the backup I...

Software

aspi32.sys incompatibilityHello everyone,
I have two types of events in my sys log which cause me concern :
Event 7000, Service Control Manager
The Aspi32 service failed to start due to the following error:
This driver has been blocked from loading
Event 1060, Application Popup...

Drivers

Video monitor incompatibility?I have two nice Samsung Syncmaster monitors, a 19" and a 17". Both support analog (VGA) and digital (DVI) connections. The 17" works with my new HP Pavilion 'HPE-180t' desktop system (VGA and DVI), but the 19" only works with a VGA connection; connecting via DVI gives the Samsung error message...

Graphic Cards

HP Photosmart2570 incompatibilityI have been unable to print from my Studio 17 laptop since buying it two weeks ago. I tried installing the original disks to two HP all in one printers .... one 2570 and the other HP 2700. Neither are accepted or recognized by Windows 7. Of course Dell refuses to help me resolve this issue unless I...

Hardware & Devices

Driver incompatibilitytoday, I downloaded the windows 7 upgrade advisor, and the thing that it said was that my NVIDIA nForce System Management Controller was incompatible and that it needed to be upgraded. I checked for upgrades, and mine was current. I did some googling, and no luck. does anybody know if my...